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Pink Dust

Pink Dust

by Ron Padgett

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American Literature Available as E-Book Poets & Poetry
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Ron Padgett is one of America's best-known and most acclaimed poets. Admired by John Ashbery, Jim Jarmusch, and Anne Waldman, his poems have moved and delighted generations of readers with their inventiveness, their gentle humor, and above all their ability to elicit wonder. These qualities are as evident as ever in Pink Dust, whose title refers to the residue from all the author's erasers, swept away or blown into the air. Like that dust, this is a book of memories rubbing up against the present. Its poignant reflections on old age shimmer with all the insouciance of youth.

Additional Book Information

Series: NYRB Poets
ISBN: 9781681379081
Pages: 128
Publication Date:

Praise

Wonderful, generous, funny poetry.
—John Ashbery

Reading Padgett one realizes that playfulness and lightness of touch are not at odds with seriousness.... As is often the case, leave it to the comic writer to best convey our tragic predicament.
—Charles Simic

[Padgett's] poetry is masterful for its panoramic humanity and mind-stopping verbal wit, its breathtaking power and beauty. We want to stay with the person in these poems all day long.
—Anne Waldman

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